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Swedish shoppers boycott supermarkets over ‘runaway’ food prices

Swedish shoppers boycott supermarkets over ‘runaway’ food prices

With the cost of feeding a family up by an estimated £2,290, consumers, like many across Europe, are taking direct action

Marcel Demir was not impressed. The Swedish student had been monitoring the price of chocolate and crisps and had noticed that both had gone up astronomically.

“Absolutely, prices have gone up,” he said, standing outside a branch of Sweden’s grocery store chain Coop in Stockholm Central train station. “I usually buy crisps and chocolate and they’ve gone up a lot. Chocolate recently. Crisps over the last year.”

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